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Presenter FAQs

Presenters should dress in business casual clothing.

If you are planning to present slides, you will need to supply your own laptop. Not all of the presentation rooms have an electrical outlet near to presenters, so make sure the laptop is fully charged and able to function on battery for the length of your presentation.

AU Honors will pay for you to print one academic poster for your conference presentation through the AU library Makerspace large format printer. Posters should be no larger than 30x40 inches and horizontally oriented. When submitting the online form to request poster printing, list the course name as AU Honors Research Conference and in the special notes field write invoice AU Honors.

On the day of the conference, you should arrive at least ten minutes before the start of the poster session to hang your poster. Honors will provide large cork board easels and pushpins. First-year students will exhibit posters on the terrace level and seniors will display their posters on the first floor of Kerwin Hall.

First of all, congratulations on completing your first year of college and AU Honors! We hope you're excited to share what you've been working on. On the day of the conference you should plan to arrive at Kerwin Hall by 8:30am. You'll pick up your conference name tag and have the opportunity to grab some coffee and light breakfast (vegan and gluten-free options will be available) on the first floor. At about 8:50am everyone should head down to Kerwin 2 on the terrace level.

Each class has been given an hour to use however their professor has decided. This means that, depending on your class, you may have slightly different amounts of time and/or requirements for your small group presentations or poster displays. For those showing posters, the cork boards and pins will be available first thing, so feel free to hang your poster at the start of the day. Otherwise, posters should be hung up in the ten-minute break period between sessions.

Each group will have 20 minutes to present, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. These time limits will be strictly enforced by the time keeper in each room.

Each hour-long panel consists of three presenters. Each presenter has a maximum of 15 minutes to present. After all three panelists have presented, the remaining 15 minutes will be for audience questions for all presenters. Presentation time limits will be strictly enforced by time keepers.

Yes, absolutely! Guests are both welcome and encouraged.

Audience FAQs

Nobody wants to present to an empty room! The best way to support the Honors students presenting their work is to be an attentive audience member. All of the presentation formats allow time for audience questions and comments. Speaking up and engaging with the presenters is a great way to show interest in their work.

We're doing a raffle! For every conference session you attend, you will receive a raffle ticket. The more sessions you attend, the more chances you have to win a prize. After the conference ends, we will draw winners for several prizes, including a number of Kindle tablets and some special Honors swag.

First of all, thanks for your help! You're a crucial element to the smooth running of the conference.

You should plan to show up ten minutes before the start of the session you signed up for on the Sign-Up Genius. Check your email for a reminder about times, location assignments, and more detailed instructions.

There is a bag of supplies in each room that contains a number of items (including an HDMI adapter) as well as a detailed instruction sheet, time remaining signs, and raffle tickets to hand out at the end of the session to attendees.